Brooklyn-based sculptor, Carol Bove is celebrated for work that incorporates found and constructed elements with unprecedented formal, technical, and conceptual acuity, consistently challenging and expanding the possibilities of formal abstraction.

Born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland, Bove was raised in Berkeley, California, and studied at New York University. Honored with a first museum showing at Kunstverein, Hamburg, in 2003, she has since enjoyed solo exhibitions at venues including The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2010); Tate St Ives, England (2009); and Kunsthalle Zürich and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (both 2004). Bove was selected to participate in the 58th, 57th and 54th Venice Biennales; documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008).

In 2014, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (in collaboration with Museion Bolzano, Italy, and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium), organized a traveling exhibition pairing her work with that of the Italian architect and designer, Carlo Scarpa. Known for her large-scale outdoor works, Bove debuted her biggest sculpture to date at the 2018 edition of Unlimited at Art Basel. In 2017, the artist’s sculptures were installed in the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin, and Bove’s steel-beam sculpture Lingam (2015) in City Hall Park, New York as part of the 2016 group exhibition, The Language of Things, organized by Public Art Fund. In 2013, she created a series of sculptures for the High Line at the Rail Yards in New York.

Between 2009 and 2013, Bove served as a clinical associate professor of studio art in Steinhardt’s Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU.

Her work is currently on view alongside John Chamberlain’s in a two-person presentation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through the summer of 2020.

Image: Carol Bove, Installation view of Women of Venice at the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery.

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